Pictures: Rest stop near Bolling Farms community in Longwood

Red Huber / Orlando Sentinel

Homes in the Bolling Farms community in Longwood back up to the picnic area of eastbound Interstate 4 rest stop. Like most of neighbors, when Jim Annis bought his home on Canal Point Road several years ago, he knew his subdivision sat just a ball's throw from an Interstate 4 rest stop. But the heavily wooded rest stop never bothered him, because all the trees buffered the noise from the trucks and families headed to Disney that use the rest stop. Now that's about to soon change. Come December, DOT has plans to chainsaw all those trees and build a 50,000 square foot, 2-story building at the rest stop that will be used for the state agency's offices and a sub station for FHP troopers. Annis says there so many other places along I-4 that DOT can build this building, but why choose to build right next to a neighborhood? (Red Huber/Staff Photographer)

Homes in the Bolling Farms community in Longwood, background, back up to the picnic area of eastbound Interstate 4 rest stop.Like most of neighbors, when Jim Annis bought his home on Canal Point Road several years ago, he knew his subdivision sat just a ball's throw from an Interstate 4 rest stop. But the heavily wooded rest stop never bothered him, because all the trees buffered the noise from the trucks and families headed to Disney that use the rest stop. Now that's about to soon change. Come December, DOT has plans to chainsaw all those trees and build a 50,000 square foot, 2-story building at the rest stop that will be used for the state agency's offices and a sub station for FHP troopers. Annis says there so many other places along I-4 that DOT can build this building, but why choose to build right next to a neighborhood? (Red Huber/Staff Photographer)